Haworth, Walter Norman

Halogenated carbohydrates, 22, 177-227 Haworth, Walter Norman, obituary of, 6, 1-9 Hemicelluloses,... 

Structural drawings of carbohydrates of this type are called Haworth formulas, after the British chemist Sir Walter Norman Haworth (St Andrew s University and the University of Birmingham) Early m his career Haworth contributed to the discovery that carbohydrates exist as cyclic hemiacetals rather than m open chain forms Later he col laborated on an efficient synthesis of vitamin C from carbohydrate precursors This was the first chemical synthesis of a vitamin and provided an inexpensive route to its prepa ration on a commercial scale Haworth was a corecipient of the Nobel Prize for chem istry m 1937... 

Hindert, Marjorie. See Karabinos, J. V. ITirst, 10. L., [Obituary of] James Col-quhmm Irvine, 8, xi-xvii Hirst, E. L., [Obituary of] Walter Norman Haworth, 8, 1-9 Hirst, E. L., and Jones, J. K. N., The Chemistry of Pectic Materials, 2, 235-251... 

Hirst, E. L. (1951). Walter Norman Haworth, 1883-1950. Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 7 372-404. 

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